<div dir="ltr">Hey Scot,<div>Have your read the FAQ?</div><div><a href="http://campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html">http://campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There's a relevant section to what you were asking to achieve, just search for </div>
<div>" <a name="bad_filenames" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><li style="display:inline!important"><p style="display:inline!important"><b>Directories with names like "Error", "SCSI", "", are showing up in the directory that holds the syslogs for the different hosts that we monitor. </b></p>
</li></a>"</div><div><br></div><div>I know the title doesn't seem relevant but the response in that sections is what I used to setup exactly what you were asking, hope that helps.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Jim Hendrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrhendri@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">jrhendri@roadrunner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>I would check doing a manual mkdir -p </some/long/path> as the user specified in the config.</div><div>Then try as root if different.</div><div>Also look at how that file system is mounted. Is it local disk or NFS ?</div>
<div>NFS treats root differently.</div><div>Also I have seen the permissions of the underlying mount point also cause problems. That is rwxr-x--- for the directory on which the NFS is mounted can cause problems for the mounted filesystem. And you won't see it unless you unmount the NFS piece.</div>
<div>Anyway that's what I can think of right off.</div><div>Jim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div>
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Date:08/21/2014 6:33 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <<a href="mailto:syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu" target="_blank">syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu</a>> <br>Cc: <br>Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] create_dir and "dynamic" destinations. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Permissions problem? Is anything reported in syslog-ng’s own logs?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards, Ben<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>I use this same config and work very well.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Em 21/08/2014 16:44, "Balazs Scheidler" <<a href="mailto:bazsi77@gmail.com" target="_blank">bazsi77@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Hmm it should create the entire path.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 20, 2014 5:16 PM, "Scot Needy" <<a href="mailto:scotrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">scotrn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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Yes, I have the create-dies() option enabled but that does not seem to work for upper level directories.<br>
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Only works if the 192_168_9_0 directory is pre-created.<br>
destination d_192_168_9_0 { file(/opt/syslog-ng/logs/192_168_9_0/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DAY/$HOST.log);};<br>
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On Aug 20, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Fabien Wernli <<a href="mailto:wernli@in2p3.fr" target="_blank">wernli@in2p3.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
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> You have the `create-dirs()` option for that:<br>
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